Three Percent Podcast

On this week's podcast, Chad and Tom dish about the idea of a
Translators Union, Dalkey's Korean literature series, and the
Melville House edition of the "Torture Report," as well as a
mini-rant about the Serial podcast, and a mini-rave about
a dear friend who's passed.

We're back! And, actually, now that Tom has a more regular
schedule at Albertine we're planning on recording a new episode
every other week. More great (sports) book talk! This week's
episode centers around John O'Brien's BookBrunch article, "Don't Blame the Readers for Lack of Interest in
Translations." It's a piece...

This week's podcast covers four major topics: Nobel Prize winner
Patrick Modiano, Michael Henry Heim and The Man Between, the upcoming ALTA Conference, and
Atavist Books. And we barely talk about sports at all! But Tom does
have a "rave" that includes a a particularily
confusing cover.

Finally, after weeks of putting this off, here is the long
anticipated podcast about Roberto Bolaño's Little Lumpen Novelita. The reason it took so
long to get to this was because of Tom's new job as the Deputy
Director at Albertine, the most beautiful Franco-centric bookstore
in New York (and/or the whole U.S.). We...

This week's podcast is mostly about a BBC
article on Hieroglyph, a collaborative project between scientists
and science-fiction writers that was inspired by the Neal
Stephenson article "Innovation Starvation." Basically, this is a
call to create fewer dystopian novels, and more positive sci-fi
ideas that can help...

About the Podcast

The Three Percent Podcast is a weekly(ish) conversation about new books, the publishing scene, international literature in translation, and many other random rants and raves. Chad W. Post of Open Letter Books and Tom Roberge of New Directions and Albertine Bookstore keep things irreverent, informed, and funny in a podcast that'll keep you up to date on the international literary and publishing worlds. Maybe. (Presented by Three Percent @ the University of Rochester.)